Graduate Town Planning Consultant

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Graduate Town Planning Consultant

Arcadis Overview:

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Programme Overview:

Our graduate GROW programme is a structured 3-year programme, designed to help you evolve and develop skills to become an experienced professional in your chosen field. You’ll benefit from training and development, mentoring, and assistance for accreditations relevant to your programme, as well as the support and guidance you need to develop and succeed.  As a GROW graduate you will be empowered to drive your career and will be exposed to a variety of experiences to assist you in gaining the skills you require to succeed. 

As a specialist and science graduate joining GROW you will specialise from day one in your chosen discipline. Working in teams of consultants you’ll be responsible for your own deliverables, liaising with clients, and given every opportunity to build your skillsets and technical expertise. You’ll work on a range of environmental and planning projects which may include major infrastructure, urban regeneration and community focussed projects that will expose you to a variety of challenges and technical specialists.  

Specialism: Town Planning - As part of our integrated Town / Development / Infrastructure Planning and Environmental Assessment and Management team, you’ll be instrumental in delivering holistic planning solutions across a range of sectors and for our diverse portfolio of clients. Our projects include delivering major housing developments, supporting regeneration and mixed-used development, and world-renowned major infrastructure planning projects (e.g. energy, transport, water, etc.). A key part of your role will be to contribute to feasibility studies and options assessments, input to design development, consultation and stakeholder engagement, preparing and submitting planning applications – for small community projects up to Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, and discharging conditions during the delivery phase. 

Accepted degrees: BSc / MA / Diploma in RTPI accredited Planning courses.

Qualifications & Experience:

• You will be graduating in 2025 or have recently graduated with at least a 2:2 in a relevant master's or bachelor's degree
• You will demonstrate typical Arcadian skills including Resilience, Creativity, Analytical Thinking and being a Team Player
• You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to use your technical knowledge to influence and consult stakeholders.
• Willing to travel and stay away from home when required (where possible we embrace virtual working)
• Hold a full driving licence which allows you to drive in the UK
• Comfortable with Site based working, when required for projects

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging 

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

About Arcadis

Arcadis’ story began back in 1888 in the Netherlands, where we developed unusable land into places for people to live and establish communities. Nowadays, we are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, who focus on creating better housing, revolutionising transport systems and finding new solutions to complex environmental challenges. We embed sustainability across everything we do to deliver solutions that are resilient, effective and within planetary boundaries.

The future of Arcadis is shaped by the mindset of our people. That's why we actively seek fresh thinkers who aspire to improve quality of life and are dedicated to driving a planet-positive future with innovative perspectives and creative solutions.

Arcadis has been recognized in Fast Company's prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024. This accolade reflects Arcadis' commitment to pushing the boundaries of innovation within the architecture and engineering sectors. 

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